Factory farming

Eat for the health of it.

What is factory farming? It is just that. Instead of cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys
all sharing the same barnyard, someone came along and offered the farmer some money to quit milking cows, a few years later they moved in a gigundous factory barn where thousands of cows would share the same building and they milk these cows around the clock. This is what I was told but I haven't had the desire to go and watch them, thinking of these cows being penned up all the time; I just can't imagine how that can be. Our cows were outside in a penned up area and they were called into a milking parlor at a certain time in the late afternoon and then again in the morning, trying to stick to a schedule.

The same with chickens. Our chickens were always in a fenced area but at least they got to go outside and run around. These factory chickens are all caged in and they lay there eggs and the egg rolls out and down to a packing place to be boxed and sold.

We never had turkeys but we knew people that did and they raised them about the same as chickens and I imagine the turkeys are caged pretty much the same as chickens. Being caged means no exercise and you know with humans how we need to exercise to stay healthy. Some get no sunlight, illnesses causes overuse on antibiotics.

Pigs used to be in a large fenced in area where they could rut around digging holes and lying in it to cool off in the summer. Sometimes you would see chickens, pigs and cows all in the same barnyard.One bore could impregnate a lot of sows so they were weeded out first and the sows that produced the most piglets were kept for breeding, the others were killed for food. Now they keep them in separate cages, the sows get bred and they stay in the cage and raise their young. I think it was healthier to let them go outside and run around and rut the ground.

It's just sort of a cruel way to raise an animal which used to run free. What I don't care for is the fact that they own and operate everything including the slaughtering of these animals.How do we know if they are doing right with them having control. If a cow was sick it was separated from the others and the milk was spilled or discarded until she was better, now they give them shots and they stay right there and they milk them just the same.

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Thibedeau asks: "Boudreau, did you get the parrot I sent to you?"
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